Friday, February 1
Pioneer Valley Symphony Choir Open Rehearsal
Looking to add some music into your life? Consider joining the Pioneer Valley Symphony Chorus this spring and experience the full spectrum of choral music with other music enthusiasts from the valley. Our open rehearsal will be on Tuesday, February 1st beginning at 7:00PM-8:30PM. More information at https://www.pvsoc.org/chorus.
7pm - Most Holy Redeemer Church, 120 Russell St, Hadley, MA 01035
Free
Link: https://www.pvsoc.org/chorus Email: admin@pvso.org
Looking to add some music into your life? Consider joining the Pioneer Valley Symphony Chorus this spring and experience the full spectrum of choral music with other music enthusiasts from the valley. Our open rehearsal will be on Tuesday, February 1st beginning at 7:00PM-8:30PM. More information at https://www.pvsoc.org/chorus.
7pm - Most Holy Redeemer Church, 120 Russell St, Hadley, MA 01035
Free
Link: https://www.pvsoc.org/chorus Email: admin@pvso.org
Saturday, February 12
Un petrarchino cantato
Blue Heron Renaissance Choir (Scott Metcalfe, director)
A musical valentine of 16th-century madrigals setting poetry by Petrarch. Music by Arcadelt, Willaert, de Rore, Wert, Marenzio & others, with dramatic recitation of poems and other writings in Italian and in English translation. To attend in-person concerts, proof of vaccination is required. Click here for full details.
2:30pm - First Church in Cambridge, Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge
Free pre-concert talk 45 minutes prior to each performance. Doors and box office open 1 hour prior to each performance.
www.blueheron.org
Blue Heron Renaissance Choir (Scott Metcalfe, director)
A musical valentine of 16th-century madrigals setting poetry by Petrarch. Music by Arcadelt, Willaert, de Rore, Wert, Marenzio & others, with dramatic recitation of poems and other writings in Italian and in English translation. To attend in-person concerts, proof of vaccination is required. Click here for full details.
2:30pm - First Church in Cambridge, Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge
Free pre-concert talk 45 minutes prior to each performance. Doors and box office open 1 hour prior to each performance.
www.blueheron.org
Sites and Sounds of Early Sudbury
Musicians of the Old Post Road: Suzanne Stumpf, flute; Daniel Ryan, cello; Sarah Darling and Jesse Irons, violins; Vincent Canciello, flute
Back by popular demand, Musicians of the Old Post Road’s Delving Deeper online series provides comprehensive explorations of select historical and musical topics. With Episode 4, “Sites and Sounds of Early Sudbury,” MOPR continues its long-standing commitment to uniting historical performance with historic architectural sites along the Old Post Road. In this online presentation-performance, MOPR’s musicians are joined by members of the Sudbury Historical Society to give an informative tour of some of Sudbury’s fascinating sites of historical significance. Locations include the Loring Parsonage (now home to the Sudbury History Center and Museum), Revolutionary War Cemetery, Hearse House, Town Pound, Hosmer House, First Parish, Rice Tavern site, and Wayside Inn. Viewers will meet a handful of little-known Massachusetts composers/arrangers like Samuel Holyoke, Oliver Shaw, and Isaac Lane along the way, as the musicians bring these 18th and early 19th century spaces to life with modern-day premieres of fascinating rediscovered works. All of the musical selections were composed or arranged by Massachusetts musicians at the time of each site’s flourishing.
7:30pm ET - Online at https://oldpostroad.org/single-tickets-online. Available for 48 hours after the premiere
$10 student, $35 individual, $70 family
musicians@oldpostroad.org
Musicians of the Old Post Road: Suzanne Stumpf, flute; Daniel Ryan, cello; Sarah Darling and Jesse Irons, violins; Vincent Canciello, flute
Back by popular demand, Musicians of the Old Post Road’s Delving Deeper online series provides comprehensive explorations of select historical and musical topics. With Episode 4, “Sites and Sounds of Early Sudbury,” MOPR continues its long-standing commitment to uniting historical performance with historic architectural sites along the Old Post Road. In this online presentation-performance, MOPR’s musicians are joined by members of the Sudbury Historical Society to give an informative tour of some of Sudbury’s fascinating sites of historical significance. Locations include the Loring Parsonage (now home to the Sudbury History Center and Museum), Revolutionary War Cemetery, Hearse House, Town Pound, Hosmer House, First Parish, Rice Tavern site, and Wayside Inn. Viewers will meet a handful of little-known Massachusetts composers/arrangers like Samuel Holyoke, Oliver Shaw, and Isaac Lane along the way, as the musicians bring these 18th and early 19th century spaces to life with modern-day premieres of fascinating rediscovered works. All of the musical selections were composed or arranged by Massachusetts musicians at the time of each site’s flourishing.
7:30pm ET - Online at https://oldpostroad.org/single-tickets-online. Available for 48 hours after the premiere
$10 student, $35 individual, $70 family
musicians@oldpostroad.org
Un petrarchino cantato
Blue Heron Renaissance Choir (Scott Metcalfe, director)
A musical valentine of 16th-century madrigals setting poetry by Petrarch. Music by Arcadelt, Willaert, de Rore, Wert, Marenzio & others, with dramatic recitation of poems and other writings in Italian and in English translation. To attend in-person concerts, proof of vaccination is required. Click here for full details.
8pm - First Church in Cambridge, Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge
Free pre-concert talk 45 minutes prior to each performance. Doors and box office open 1 hour prior to each performance.
www.blueheron.org
Blue Heron Renaissance Choir (Scott Metcalfe, director)
A musical valentine of 16th-century madrigals setting poetry by Petrarch. Music by Arcadelt, Willaert, de Rore, Wert, Marenzio & others, with dramatic recitation of poems and other writings in Italian and in English translation. To attend in-person concerts, proof of vaccination is required. Click here for full details.
8pm - First Church in Cambridge, Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge
Free pre-concert talk 45 minutes prior to each performance. Doors and box office open 1 hour prior to each performance.
www.blueheron.org
Wednesday, February 16
Early Notation Course - The Loire Valley Chansonniers
Annette Bauer, recorder & early notation
Early Notation Session 9 takes a look at the repertoire transmitted in the beautifully illuminated group of mid-15th century chansonniers typically referred to as the Loire Valley Chansonniers (Copenhagen, Dijon, Laborde, Leuven, Nivelle, and Wolfenbuettel). Four sessions beginning Feb. 16.
5:30-6:45 pm - online (Feb 16 & 23, March 2 & 9)
$100 for 4-session course
https://www.amherstearlymusic.org/online-classes
Annette Bauer, recorder & early notation
Early Notation Session 9 takes a look at the repertoire transmitted in the beautifully illuminated group of mid-15th century chansonniers typically referred to as the Loire Valley Chansonniers (Copenhagen, Dijon, Laborde, Leuven, Nivelle, and Wolfenbuettel). Four sessions beginning Feb. 16.
5:30-6:45 pm - online (Feb 16 & 23, March 2 & 9)
$100 for 4-session course
https://www.amherstearlymusic.org/online-classes
Friday, February 18
Toward the Dawn: A musical journey from evening to sunrise
Stile Antico
Working without a conductor, the intensely collaborative singers of Stile Antico have won acclaim as one of the world’s most vibrant and expressive vocal ensembles. They return to BEMF with a program that charts a course from twilight to dawn, echoing both the rhythms of church liturgy and the medieval experience of night, seductive and unsettling in equal measure. Taverner’s mighty Ave Dei patris filia, based on a chant for Matins, stands at the end of a sumptuous sequence of sacred music, chansons, and madrigals, including Allegri’s beloved Miserere, by composers from England and across Europe.
8pm - St. Paul Church, Cambridge, MA
Tickets: $80 - $50 - $30; Virtual Tickets: $15
VIRTUAL PREMIERE: Friday, March 4, 2022 at 8pm (ET) Available to watch until March 18, 2022 at 11:59pm (ET)
www.bemf.org
Stile Antico
Working without a conductor, the intensely collaborative singers of Stile Antico have won acclaim as one of the world’s most vibrant and expressive vocal ensembles. They return to BEMF with a program that charts a course from twilight to dawn, echoing both the rhythms of church liturgy and the medieval experience of night, seductive and unsettling in equal measure. Taverner’s mighty Ave Dei patris filia, based on a chant for Matins, stands at the end of a sumptuous sequence of sacred music, chansons, and madrigals, including Allegri’s beloved Miserere, by composers from England and across Europe.
8pm - St. Paul Church, Cambridge, MA
Tickets: $80 - $50 - $30; Virtual Tickets: $15
VIRTUAL PREMIERE: Friday, March 4, 2022 at 8pm (ET) Available to watch until March 18, 2022 at 11:59pm (ET)
www.bemf.org
Sunday, February 20
VdGS-NE Special Topic: Intro to Renaissance Notation
John Mark Rozendaal, viola da gamba; Alice Robbins, coordinator
Playing 16th-century counterpoint from facsimiles of primary sources can be fun, gives us access to mountains of unedited repertoire, and most importantly, brings us into the working process of Renaissance musicians. In this class all players practice each of the parts of the simplest part music, including both famous and little-known madrigals, lieder, and chansons, reading from facsimiles of some of the earliest music printed from moveable type (octave shifting allowed). Then we play along with “screen share” renditions of the complete compositions. In addition to playing beautiful repertoire, we practice maintaining tactus, playing without barlines, adding ficta, and playing in unfamiliar clefs. Open to all! Players and auditors of all levels welcome. Class will be recorded and made available to registrants for one month. A=415
Register by February 16; registration opens soon at https://vdgsne.org/special-topics-classes/
3-4:30pm - online (link sent to registrants)
$15 members/$20 nonmembers. Register by February 16.
Website
John Mark Rozendaal, viola da gamba; Alice Robbins, coordinator
Playing 16th-century counterpoint from facsimiles of primary sources can be fun, gives us access to mountains of unedited repertoire, and most importantly, brings us into the working process of Renaissance musicians. In this class all players practice each of the parts of the simplest part music, including both famous and little-known madrigals, lieder, and chansons, reading from facsimiles of some of the earliest music printed from moveable type (octave shifting allowed). Then we play along with “screen share” renditions of the complete compositions. In addition to playing beautiful repertoire, we practice maintaining tactus, playing without barlines, adding ficta, and playing in unfamiliar clefs. Open to all! Players and auditors of all levels welcome. Class will be recorded and made available to registrants for one month. A=415
Register by February 16; registration opens soon at https://vdgsne.org/special-topics-classes/
3-4:30pm - online (link sent to registrants)
$15 members/$20 nonmembers. Register by February 16.
Website
Banbury Ale
Seven Times Salt: Karen Burciaga, fiddle, guitar, voice; Dan Meyers, recorders, percussion, voice; Josh Schreiber, bass viol, voice; Matthew Wright, lute, voice
This winter, Seven Times Salt brings the best of the Elizabethan pub scene to the present day. In this program we present rousing drinking songs, broadside ballads, rustic catches, and energetic country dances from around the British Isles, including plenty of opportunities for audience participation. (There are also some more refined selections for English consort to let you rest between bouts of revelry.) Raise your voice and help fill the hall with music!
7pm - St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 135 Lafayette St. Marblehead, MA
$20 admission; please purchase in advance. Limit of 50. Masks required. Snow date Feb. 27.
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/seventimessalt/631931
Seven Times Salt: Karen Burciaga, fiddle, guitar, voice; Dan Meyers, recorders, percussion, voice; Josh Schreiber, bass viol, voice; Matthew Wright, lute, voice
This winter, Seven Times Salt brings the best of the Elizabethan pub scene to the present day. In this program we present rousing drinking songs, broadside ballads, rustic catches, and energetic country dances from around the British Isles, including plenty of opportunities for audience participation. (There are also some more refined selections for English consort to let you rest between bouts of revelry.) Raise your voice and help fill the hall with music!
7pm - St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 135 Lafayette St. Marblehead, MA
$20 admission; please purchase in advance. Limit of 50. Masks required. Snow date Feb. 27.
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/seventimessalt/631931
Friday, February 25
Les Fêtes Royales in Baroque Versailles
Le Concert des Nations (Jordi Savall, director)
For more than a half century, Jordi Savall has built a legacy as one of the most engaging musical personalities of his generation, in performances that marry meticulous research with virtuosic musicianship. A favorite of BEMF audiences since our very first Concert Season, he returns to BEMF with his renowned ensemble Le Concert des Nations performing music by Rameau, Marais, Philidor, and Rebel written for the grand royal concerts of Louis XIII, Louis XIV, and Louis XV of France.
8pm - St. Paul Church, 29 Mt. Auburn St. Cambridge, MA
Tickets: $80 - $50 - $30; Virtual Tickets: $15
VIRTUAL PREMIERE: Friday, March 11, 2022 at 8pm (ET) Available to watch until March 25, 2022 at 11:59pm (ET)
www.bemf.org
Le Concert des Nations (Jordi Savall, director)
For more than a half century, Jordi Savall has built a legacy as one of the most engaging musical personalities of his generation, in performances that marry meticulous research with virtuosic musicianship. A favorite of BEMF audiences since our very first Concert Season, he returns to BEMF with his renowned ensemble Le Concert des Nations performing music by Rameau, Marais, Philidor, and Rebel written for the grand royal concerts of Louis XIII, Louis XIV, and Louis XV of France.
8pm - St. Paul Church, 29 Mt. Auburn St. Cambridge, MA
Tickets: $80 - $50 - $30; Virtual Tickets: $15
VIRTUAL PREMIERE: Friday, March 11, 2022 at 8pm (ET) Available to watch until March 25, 2022 at 11:59pm (ET)
www.bemf.org
Saturday, February 26
Berwick Fiddle Consort
Lydia Becker, Julia Connor, Sarah Douglass, Anna Maberry, fiddles
6pm - Sudbury Historical Society, 288 Old Sudbury Road, Sudbury MA
Tickets: $15 ($10 for SHS members)
http://www.sudbury01776.org/calendar2.html
Lydia Becker, Julia Connor, Sarah Douglass, Anna Maberry, fiddles
6pm - Sudbury Historical Society, 288 Old Sudbury Road, Sudbury MA
Tickets: $15 ($10 for SHS members)
http://www.sudbury01776.org/calendar2.html
Sunday, February 27
Fourth Sundays with Guts: Friends & Rivals in the Paris Opéra
Guts Baroque: Sylvia Schwartz, baroque violin, & John Ott, viola da gamba
Come back in time with us to France in the 1730s: the hotshot violinists of the Académie de Musique (what is now known as the Paris Opéra) are doing their thing, navigating the friendships and rivalries of their professional lives while pushing forward the form of the Franco-Italian violin sonata. We’ll tell you all about them between pieces, and bring their music to life with the unique sound colors and shapes made possible by our historical instruments! During the reign of Louis XV, several prominent violinists made their careers. Many of them were trained in Italy by students of Corelli, notably G.B. Somis, and others were brought up playing violin in France. They competed for spots in the Academie de Musique, and in the prestigious 24 Violons du Roi, the King’s private string orchestra. In addition, during Lent, when the Opera was closed, several of them played solos in the Concert Spirituel, a concert series of chamber music sponsored by the King. Those that stood out were granted spots in the King’s ensembles, and often given the King’s privilege to publish music. Come learn about Jean-Baptiste Anet, the famous “Baptiste” to whom all other violinists were compared; Jean-Baptiste Quentin, a hotshot violinist who ended up switching to viola; the great Jean-Baptiste Senaillé, recognized as a great violinist and composer; Jean-Pierre Guignon, the Italian immigrant who used his position to get rid of his rivals, and Louis Aubert, the boy wonder who was already playing with the Opera at the age of 11!
7pm EST - Online, donate via Square at https://square.link/u/IymQaFS2 to receive viewing link. Available on-demand following the live premiere.
$20 suggested donation per household
https://gutsbaroque.com or info@gutsbaroque.com
Guts Baroque: Sylvia Schwartz, baroque violin, & John Ott, viola da gamba
Come back in time with us to France in the 1730s: the hotshot violinists of the Académie de Musique (what is now known as the Paris Opéra) are doing their thing, navigating the friendships and rivalries of their professional lives while pushing forward the form of the Franco-Italian violin sonata. We’ll tell you all about them between pieces, and bring their music to life with the unique sound colors and shapes made possible by our historical instruments! During the reign of Louis XV, several prominent violinists made their careers. Many of them were trained in Italy by students of Corelli, notably G.B. Somis, and others were brought up playing violin in France. They competed for spots in the Academie de Musique, and in the prestigious 24 Violons du Roi, the King’s private string orchestra. In addition, during Lent, when the Opera was closed, several of them played solos in the Concert Spirituel, a concert series of chamber music sponsored by the King. Those that stood out were granted spots in the King’s ensembles, and often given the King’s privilege to publish music. Come learn about Jean-Baptiste Anet, the famous “Baptiste” to whom all other violinists were compared; Jean-Baptiste Quentin, a hotshot violinist who ended up switching to viola; the great Jean-Baptiste Senaillé, recognized as a great violinist and composer; Jean-Pierre Guignon, the Italian immigrant who used his position to get rid of his rivals, and Louis Aubert, the boy wonder who was already playing with the Opera at the age of 11!
7pm EST - Online, donate via Square at https://square.link/u/IymQaFS2 to receive viewing link. Available on-demand following the live premiere.
$20 suggested donation per household
https://gutsbaroque.com or info@gutsbaroque.com